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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Performance Pressure as a Double-Edged Sword: Enhancing Team Motivation While Undermining the Use of Team Knowledge

By: Heidi K. Gardner
In this paper, I develop and empirically test the proposition that performance pressure acts as a double-edged sword for teams, providing positive effects by enhancing team motivation to achieve good results while simultaneously triggering process losses. I conducted a... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Expectations; Groups and Teams
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  • June 2025
  • Case

The Value of Art on Campus as a Vision for Educating Leaders Who Make a Difference

By: James Riley, Alexis Lefort and Helen Yap
This case explores the debate surrounding the installation of a large contemporary sculpture, Inés by Jaume Plensa, at Harvard Business School under the leadership of Dean Nitin Nohria. Set in 2016, the case examines the role of physical campus design and public art in... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; United States
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  • 01 Aug 2005
  • Conference Presentation

A Different Way of Thinking about Leading

By: Scott Snook
Keywords: Leadership
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  • 2013
  • Article

Is It All about the Self? The Effect of Self-control Depletion on Ultimatum Game Proposers

By: Eliran Halali, Yoella Bereby-Meyer and Axel Ockenfels
In the ultimatum-game, as in many real-life social exchange situations, the selfish motive to maximize own gains conflicts with fairness preferences. In the present study we manipulated the availability of cognitive-control resources for ultimatum-game proposers to... View Details
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  • 16 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

quickly. The shift has happened in days, not months. Businesses may be able to learn how to move faster, acting in more agile ways, as a result. Amy C. Edmondson (@AmyCEdmondson) is the Novartis Professor of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • February 2007
  • Module Note

Endurance Summary: The Challenge of Right Versus Wrong

By: Sandra J. Sucher
A summary of the major themes discussed in the first class of The Moral Leader (EC curriculum). View Details
Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Leadership; Curriculum and Courses
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  • 02 Dec 2013
  • News

Companies Revisit 'Rank And Yank' of 1980s

  • 13 Aug 2020
  • News

Nationwide search launched for University chief of police

  • December 2005 (Revised May 2009)
  • Case

C.R. Smith and the Birth of American Airlines

By: Anthony Mayo and Laura Gaie Singleton
Presents an overview of the path that C.R. Smith pursued to build American Airlines into one of the largest airlines in the world in the 20th century. Over the course of his 30-year tenure as president of American Airlines, Smith deployed a three-pronged... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Style; Growth and Development Strategy; Industry Growth; Operations; Air Transportation Industry; United States
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  • 02 Nov 2016
  • What Do You Think?

Are Employees Becoming Job 'Renters' Instead of 'Owners'?

decline in job ownership. Leadership took a large share of the blame. J Mac’s comment was typical of several: “I think the ‘job renter’ behavior is the result View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 03 Dec 2015
  • Cold Call Podcast

Planning Change: Lessons from the World of Retail

Keywords: Re: Das Narayandas
  • 01 Oct 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Can the “Masks of Command” Coexist with Authentic Leadership?

masks of command force the leader to be something other than his or her true self? Can a leader both act and be real?" (To underline questions about the theatrical nature View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 02 Feb 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Lawful but Corrupt: Gaming and the Problem of Institutional Corruption in the Private Sector

Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter; Financial Services
  • Nov 30 2017
  • Testimonial

Developing a Broader Vision of Real Estate

  • 19 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy

case, product divisions). And just as obviously, no one likes to give up power. Leadership from the top, aimed at promoting a "one-company" mentality, is often the only way forward. One of... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • Mar 28 2018
  • Testimonial

Accessing a World of Knowledge About Boards

  • 08 Mar 2013
  • News

Feeling worried? Be wary of advice you receive

  • April 2013
  • Teaching Note

New Resource Bank: In Pursuit of Green (TN)

By: Christopher Marquis and Juan Almandoz
This case involves the founding and early life of a new bank enterprise in San Francisco with a commitment to the cause of sustainability. It illustrates the opportunities and challenges of banking on values and of specifying and making explicit the practical... View Details
Keywords: Business And Society; Entrepreneurial Management; Growth Strategy; Social Enterprise; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Entrepreneurship; Business and Community Relations; Growth and Development Strategy; Banking Industry; San Francisco
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  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

Learning to Speak the Language of Business

Mikitani Main article: Where Innovation Rules Case study: Englishnization at Rakuten From Pinterest to Kobo, how Japan's Rakuten is building a global internet giant (Wired.co.uk) You might call Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA 1993) the Jeff Bezos View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; e-commerce; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises
  • 28 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance

Throughout this period, the United States has consistently turned to unilateral decisions and bilateral trade and investment treaties to advance its national interests. It has largely fallen to the Europeans to exercise leadership in the... View Details
Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal